Total third-quarter sales for the three months ended May 31 were up 6.5% to $19.49 billion from $18.65 billion a year ago, topping average analyst estimates of $19.2 billion in a Thomson Reuters poll. Same-store sales during the quarter increased 6.8%.

The world’s largest pharmacy chain, which reported the sales figures on Wednesday, also said it closed 23 stores during May as part of its previously-announced effort to shut a total of 76 drugstores during the second half of fiscal 2014.

Shares of Walgreen, which swallowed 45% of European pharmacy giant Alliance Boots in a $6.7 billion deal in 2012 and has the option to buy the rest in 2015, were up just 0.14% to $71.66 in early trade.